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"PEOPLES FORUM."
(We shill undertake to civ«? as many as pos
sible a c hance to express their opinions in this
Published every Fiiday morning.
column whether the sentiment wpre»ed agrees
with our opinions oint it, h owe ver-we reserve
the privilege to reject or curtail any article sent
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1 ‘ by ? all
P uoi KiETOKH. ' ns, for reasons which are understood
L amb & J ones ,
I publishers. Aho. remember that brevity is
is re-
qtlLed above all things.]
W. F. D. J ones ,
D. C. L amb ,
E ditor .
A ssociate E dito ».
THE COUNTV CLERK’S FEES.
north side of the river would not
l>e necessary.
The county will grant a bridge
there long Is fore it will at Mr.
Svenson’s place.
The settlers up the river are
working against their own inter
ests and can accomplish more and
obtain results sooner by working
for a bridge up the river.
The proposed road cannot be
made as good as the one now in
use.
The whole difficulty has arisen
from neighborhood quarrel.«, and
revenge is the prime motive factor
and the attorneys in the case a
the principal beneficiaries.
1’UILAJiDKi: Q. D oesticks , J h .
C. IT. BODLE,
C entral M arket ,
L. ¡1. Brawn, prop.
------ Proprietor of the®, 5------------
The best of beef, veal, pork
Hair-cutting q .
z - j Shaving,
and mutton on hand.
in the latestSeafoam,
Eggs, butter, vegetables and chickens
City styles.
\ Shampoo.
bought and sold.
Thia is the only first-class shop in the Satisfaction guaranteed to every one.
county, (live him a trial. Shop, one
Shop opposite the Grand Central.
L. H. Brown.
I
door South ot G hand C kstbal .
E d . H eadlight .—l)o the people
of
Tillamook county realize how
(STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.)
One year .............................................
ti.». much they are taxed for County
Six months
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. .75.
B aths at all times .
The
Three months
. . .LO Clerk's fees in this county?
“ 1 TILLAMOOK-------
T
illamook
, - - - - O ugon .
tax-payers of this county pay each
ADVI'ariSJSC .’I ATES.
1____ ^IVERYSTABLE
p r yeir <9.oc year for Clerk’s fees more than
1 inch, per month
rl.oo
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” 27.00
8.00 . .
¿col. ”
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5.00
” ” 45.00 for roads and bridges.
The re
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First-class single and double
15.00 ...
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” I35.ec ceipts of the Clerk’ r office the
. LETCHER
Local notice» j iTs. per line; and set«, after
; last six month.-', of 1S.S9 were over
turnouts kept on hand
the first insertion.
XUltunock, Oregon.
Lost, F >-tn«i, Wanted. For Sul • and For Rent ?3,500, more than $22 a day. Just
notices, Oocts for first insertion aid Ji.oo per
Boarding and transient stock
month.
■ think of it; we arc paying five
Legal notices, Nonpareil, io'T i. per line for
carefully cared for.
first insertion aud <5cts per line ¿or each aub:»e- prices for the work! In early (lavs’
q it ent insertion.
when very little business was done
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Stillwsll Sc Ebsrman,
CITY INCORPORATION
All local notices will be “starred” or otherwise
designated as advertisements.
in the office, it w-an necessary to
Proprietors.
V
No special position wil be agree«] upon for ' pay high fees in order to make fair E d . H eadlight :
any advertisement, though we tnkr cs].« cial
pains to display advertising matter e.Tectively wages for the Clerk's time, but
It is to be hoped that the articles
and give ns favorable porition a - pwdblt’, fre
now that the business is so largely of incorporation which, I under
quently changing the ‘make up” or the paper
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We mnkeaapccial effort to change or re-build increased, there is no sense in pay-' stand, tire in prejxiration for this
advertisements as often us our patrons desire,
ing higher fees to him than in town will be drawn with reference
but make no contract to that« fleet.
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No cuts will be used, except out-ltna cuts on Yamhill, Poll; or Benton counties. to at lea: t three desirable features:
tnetal bases.
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It is an unnecessary’ tax, tin evil plainass, brevity and on business
We reserve the right to reject any advertise
that our Legislature should rem principles.
meat that we deem ohjecti<uiable.
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The people of this
T eumh : Cash in 'idv.tnre f.»r small advertise edy at once.
Dy plainess I mean such word
ments and payment is required monthly or
county cannot afford to enrich an ing if possible as will not require
quarterly on large contracts.
Send nil money bv dr ift, Postal Note, Money individual in a single term of office. the service of a judge or Court to
Order or Registered i ettcr, at our expense.
Public officers ought all be paid i interpret; by brevity, that they
Correspondence on topics of general interest, i
invibal.
; ¡airly for their work aud no more. shall contain only what is necessary
Will make regular trips, the weather permit
Address all commitn(catIons to
T ax - pa veil
for the proper government of a
T he H eadlight ,
ting, from
Watchmaker
and
Jeweler.
T illamook , O h .
TILLAMOOK to ASTORIA and PORTLAND, t
small town and not encumbered
THE WILSON RIVER ROAD AGAIN. | with an immense number of pro Watches Clocks
ISTAll Post-masters in Tillamook county ,
St Je.wclry For Freight rates or Passage, apply to
are atp-nts for the H eadlight .
Boss Filled Cases a Specialty.
P. SCHRADER. Master.
E d . H eadlight .—Allow mo to visions, applicable only to a great ALL WORK Warranted,
municipality;
and
by
business
prin
No doubt the President was very say s< mething more about that
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The settlers on ciples I mean principally light 0 t r-i'Rii’i: for the TILLAMOOK
much interested in Mr, Stanley's read question.
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taxation
(or
no
taxation
at
all
for
V
HEADLIGHT,
the
only
m-ws-
- -V r vJ3V or ’ AXUHO MAN FOOSt
luncheon stories of shady Africa. Wilson river wish to e:<press their
.-iCin'-.i»! n:,d It.'lftVOUfl OI-plIIÁT;
■ the present); provisions for the im-
■ '7 >?<. riB ¡¡Weakmm of Body and Mind, Effects
. » paper in Tillamook county G T ’ . f
They have no ofiiec-seekers down thank:« to “A. B.” for his bold and
Í.'..Ik’C.' illr-'f Frrcrsor Exoecaei ia vider Young,
I
provement
of
our
street-«
and
of
. '' A!
fi.'-’y ucsiored. How to enlarda ani
-Iraiglit-for’.'.i’.ril statement« in the
L JiD .Vf 5A). EDOnOAXSAPARTHt > BCDÏ.
giving all the county news. I lioâi . S ’bi '.«aWFUi,
there.
xi . ; .• • •:r..’<i”rg HOME TBJATJILXT-Benoflte In r. dsy;
„<• t(,r<! r’.t'onntr!;s. Wr tethrn«
H eadlight last week.
It seems i the license derivable from the
l;-/ r .
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pspl.nsltenand froof*
(«Mied)freo.
Z1L4«., .« ¡Z MtOiCLL <D0-. EUFf ALO, M.
“War am de uso fo’ foolin’ and that the citizens of Tillamook are 1 saloons and other licensed bus
fussin’ away so much of all the not blind-folded by tin false state inesses to that end.
It is also bo hoped that there
time over dis ynr McKinley bill,” mints made regarding the road on
eaid an old darkey the other day. the north side of Wilson river. will be no opening left for any con
“Why in the wuld don’t de govern The law provides plainly that if test over the license business.
ment pay it, and not waste do time twelve legal signers petition the That the state license be fixed at
■ ount. court for a road or change no less than the state provides and
foilin’ aroun?”
in a road, the
court shall no greater than a thousand dollars
We trust that some of our long- allow the petition. Now, the set a year. Have no petitioning nor
winded comspondi'iits be a little ters on Wilson river have peti prohibitive nonsense about it. The
easy on us. Talk to tho point and tioned for a change in a certain contest between liquor cranks and '
cut it off before you weary us, if pl ice in order to make it conven cold water cranks is about a profit
you want your articles printed. We ient for the public travel,and at less one as can be raised in a com
are desirous of having a little space th“ same time to give a very much munity and produces discords in
left in which to speak our own n< eded outlet to settlers living on numerable. Theoretically, of course -
thu north side of said stream. The the temperance people are right,
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roceries
ph n suggested t</ build a bridge practically, in this everyday world
Aliout the 2‘«t!> of
of course their success in a place
ton
c“Dt. Ailvancn will bo made further up tiw iiwr is only a blind
I like this, would kill it. Either!
and
would
no
‘
accommodate
the
on all through freight bu:-in<s.«,
liquor would be sold without the !
both east ami went bound. 'I bis the si ttler.i. Those living out ofj
I
formality
of license or a new town KX'BlXYTI-ilNG'
AT
BOTTONI PRICES:
will lie aboutsuflieient to <• xtinguish the district should be careful to
would
spring
up
controlled
by
less
tho last ray of hope that some of know they are right before signing
S pecial sale on boots
conscientious and more sensible1
our saw millers have of sending petitions and should allow tho
peoplo
and
the
grass
would
grow
!
peoplo residing in a road district
lumber to the ea.-lpin markets.
to decide matters pertaining to in our streets worse than it now
5x.
i does.
H.
their own district.
It is an indisputable fact that
C. D.
Washington is a facinating city.
Tho Chairmanship of the House
[Much of the above article was
Hardly a man visits the Capitol necessarily omitted as it contained Committee on Coinage has not yet
who doeH not want to live there.
personal allusions that would only been filled, and an interesting
‘‘Prospectors” are almost as num
tend to further embitter all par question has arisen with it. The
erous in Washington n (hey were ties concerned.—Ed.1
rules provide that in the absence
in the California gold field.« in the
of the ('hairman the next member
halcyon days of '49 and there
on the committee shall become
ANOTHER VIEW OF IT.
abouts, ami now that Congress is
chairman, andtluit in ease of death
again in --sioii they are in greater
I’ d . H eadlight .—The argument of the chairman the Speaker shall
number than over.
of “A. I».” regarding the pctiition appoint a member to bo the head
to have the road vacated tluit was of the committee; but no provision
A trick that deserves to be pa
allowed at the last regular term of whatever is imide for a vacancy in
tented was played on a firm in
court, appears nil right on the face, tho chairmanship caused by resig
Wheeling, W. \ .. by a filmier who
contingent
circumstances, I nation, and such an occnrence ns
it sei'ins had two large trees on his but
when taken in consideration, give I happened when Mr. Conger, of
farm, one u black walnut and the
the matter nn entirely different Iowa, resigned to become minister'
other a black imk. The walnut he
aspect.
i to Brazil seems never to have been
sold first, after entirely stripping
The only plausible argument contemplated, as the rules stand
ofi'the bark. He next cut (he oak
{»resented is that the county and there seems noway in which the
and after taking oil' tho bark he
parties who paid Mr. Kelso dain- chairmanship can lx* filled except Hardware,
carefully tacked on the bark he
Staves
,.ges would be defrauded out < f by amending the riftes.
had taken off the walnut ami then
their $!2tM>. Surely, Mr. Kelso
Cutlery,
sold it to the same party for wal
Ranges,
would not wish to keep the 5:200
nut. The trick, however, was dis
if the road 'xi ere vacated, as he
Our illustrated New Year edition is Danra and
covered. but not until the logs had
Tiq-ware,
would be receiving something for under preparation, the engraving« are in ,
been drawn ten or twelve miles
nothing, and Mr. Kelso has the the blinds of the artists and the matter
Windows.
and the saw set to work on them.
and Paints
for that issue is being put into tv|>e
After considerable trouble the fur- : reputation of being an honest and > This special numliet will be of much I
Furthermore, if the
mor was at last obliged to return | fair man.
value to the county and town, as the de- 1
, court sees fit to vacate the road, scriptive matter »ill tie full and complete I
his ill gotten money. -Sawmill I
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Plumbing and Tin-raafing Promptly Dane.
Gazeti i i-
I it will probably lx»done with the i in every particular. Every resource, in
understandinir that Mr. Kelso will
understanding
will | . ilustry, ami possibility will receive aj»-
TILLAMOOK
OREGON.
DIFFERENT HERE.
rei'und tho damage money, If |lv prepriate utt<,iit'°n, «ml the county will
be
written
up
by
localities.
There
will
Tho mill whistle.« which regulate is not willing to do this, the court j l>e given al«» a resume of the prosperity
the time for > many i i earls morn is surely not so foolish as to vacate I of the county and several special articles
ing will soon be heard no more. - the road, as it will do no harm to on luuilxtring, dairying etc., have been
remain there, even if it is of no prepared by tho beat w riters in the
Marinette <Wis.) Eagle.
' county.
The above clipping makes us use.
The paper will be illustrated with over
Tho facts are these:
think of old tine and (.'.uses us
twenty-five engraviugs, and portrait« of I
The
bridge
at
Mr.
Freeman's some of cur prominent men will be
to feel e lit t le ch illy, as it indicate»
that winter is ut baud and the place should not have I h ' cij built given.
The expense in issuing «neh a paper '
quietni-ssol'di ,ith will rei.,n around when it was known that a new
is
great, and tho price will be placed at
mud
would
be
granted.
the sawmills for ne. ly six mouth.«
Since tiiat bridge is built, it in ithts. per copy in order that we may be ;
to come. Were it not for such sug
partly re-imburaed for the outlay. Our
gestive reminders as this we would folly to build two mom bridges regular subscribers will receive the|u»p< r
without extra charge and our regular
bo apt to forget that winter was within half-u-mile of it.
coming on, as winter here makes, The new mad will he of no urn* advertlaing patrons will get the full bene
fit of it.
no difference to the saw millers. until two new bridges ure built.
Two th.wieand copies, or more will be
The court is not likely to build
Tho whistles shriek just the same,
issued aud the p»|>er widely circulated.
morning, noon aud night as they bridges them until other much The leading hotels, public libraries, ami
do in tho middle of the summer. needed bridges are built in the the Board of Immigration rooms in Port
Tho large double circulars get county, aud pmlutbly for the next land will bo supplied with copies ami
many will be sent east.
through the logs just as fast, j two years the county mid citixens
Copies this issue w ill be well worth
will
lx-
out
the
8200
damages
and
tlu> whiiiers hiuu, tho e.lgers scream
preserving fur reference, and will lie jusl m »-
t ».
RATES OF St BSCRIPT1ON.
(„ not to b» ouidbne unii invite« thè aitention <>f thè putflic t,j
bis large and complète stock rif
He has just received great
additions to his already se
lect and complete stock of
goods and invites competi
tion in prices, quality con
sidered.
Cciil 3nd take a look at
liis goods and you will ba
convinced that there is
economy in buying of him.
no matter what other in.
ducements you hear of.
THE SI1AUGUSTA.
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$1.50 per year.
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General Xlerchanclise
Drugs Medicines Hard-
ware Wood-ware Wil=
low=\vare Roots Shoes
and G
—Agent for Steamer
“Louis Olsen
T illamook
Stine
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HEADLIGHT
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